Mark's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:05:52 -0700 60 Mark's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Worthing Chronicle (Worthing, #3)]]> 7969 272 Orson Scott Card 0441918107 Mark 3 3.84 1983 The Worthing Chronicle (Worthing, #3)
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average rating: 3.84
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I Will Teach You to Be Rich 4924862
Sethi covers how to save time by not wasting it managing money; the guns and cars myth of credit cards; how to negotiate like an Indian—the conversation begins with "no"; why "Budgeting Doesn't Have to Suck!"; how to get things rolling—for real—with only $20; what most people don't understand about taxes; how to get a CEO to take you out to lunch; how to avoid the Super Mario Brothers trap by making your savings work harder than you do; the difference between cheap and frugal; the hidden relationship between money and food. Not to mention his first key lesson: Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Integrated with his website, where readers can use interactive charts, follow up on the latest information, and join the community, it is a hip blueprint to building wealth and financial security.

Every month, 175,000 unique visitors come to Ramit Sethi's website, Iwillteachyoutoberich.com, to discover the path to financial freedom. They praise him thoughtfully ("Your site summarizes everything I want with my life—to be rich in finances, rich in experience, rich in family blessings," --Dan Esparza) and effusively ("Dude, you rock. I love this site!" --Richard Wu). The press has caught on, too: "Ramit Sethi is a rising star in the world of personal finance writing . . . one singularly attuned to the sensibilities of his generation. his style is part frat boy and part silicon Valley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in" (San Francisco Chronicle). His writing is smart, his voice is full of attitude, and his ideas are uncommonly sound and refreshingly hype-free.]]>
272 Ramit Sethi 0761147489 Mark 0 currently-reading 4.05 2009 I Will Teach You to Be Rich
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Fight Club 5759 218 Chuck Palahniuk 0393327345 Mark 0 currently-reading 4.19 1996 Fight Club
author: Chuck Palahniuk
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average rating: 4.19
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<![CDATA[The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business]]> 12609433 375 Charles Duhigg 1400069289 Mark 0 to-read 4.13 2012 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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The Android's Dream 7081
A sheep.

That's right, a sheep. And if you think that's the most surprising thing about this book, wait until you read Chapter One. Welcome to The Android's Dream.

For Harry Creek, it's quickly becoming a nightmare. All he wants is to do his uncomplicated mid-level diplomatic job with Earth's State Department. But his past training and skills get him tapped to save the planet--and to protect pet store owner Robin Baker, whose own past holds the key to the whereabouts of that lost sheep. Doing both will take him from lava-strewn battlefields to alien halls of power. All in a day's work. Maybe it's time for a raise.

Throw in two-timing freelance mercenaries, political lobbyists with megalomaniac tendencies, aliens on a religious quest, and an artificial intelligence with unusual backstory, and you've got more than just your usual science fiction adventure story. You've got The Android's Dream.]]>
396 John Scalzi 0765309416 Mark 5 3.97 2006 The Android's Dream
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<![CDATA[The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories]]> 160149 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King.

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.]]>
420 H.P. Lovecraft 0141182342 Mark 4 4.21 1928 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
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<![CDATA[Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate]]> 22217711
Enter Zillow, the nation's #1 real estate website and mobile app. Thanks to its treasure trove of proprietary data and army of statisticians and data scientists, led by chief economist Stan Humphries, Zillow has been able to spot the trends and truths of today's housing market while acknowledging that a home is more than an economic asset. In Zillow Talk , Humphries and CEO Spencer Rascoff explain the science behind where and how we live now and reveal practical, data-driven insights about buying, selling, renting and financing real estate. Read this book to find out

It's better to remodel your bathroom than your kitchen
Putting the word "cute" in your listing could cost you thousands of dollars
You shouldn't buy the worst house in the best neighborhood
You should never list your house for $444,000
You shouldn't list your house for sale before March Madness or after the Masters

Densely packed with entertaining anecdotes and invaluable how-to advice, Zillow Talk is poised to be the real estate almanac for the next generation.]]>
288 Spencer Rascoff 1455574740 Mark 4 3.49 2015 Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate
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Childhood’s End 414999
But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?]]>
224 Arthur C. Clarke Mark 4 4.12 1953 Childhood’s End
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average rating: 4.12
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories]]> 11751 All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.]]> 399 Edward P. Jones 0060557567 Mark 4 3.81 2006 All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
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average rating: 3.81
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<![CDATA[Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch]]> 12067
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons � well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel � would quite like the Rapture not to happen.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…]]>
491 Terry Pratchett Mark 4 4.27 1990 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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No Country for Old Men 12497 Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780375706677

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.]]>
309 Cormac McCarthy Mark 5 4.15 2005 No Country for Old Men
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<![CDATA[Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy]]> 26520839
This book is a compelling addition to the body of works about Crazy Horse and the complicated and often conflicting events of that time period in American History.

Floyd Clown, Doug War Eagle, and Don Red Thunder are the sole administrators and spokesmen of the Crazy Horse estate and often speak at historical gatherings and national parks about their family's history.]]>
256 The Edward Clown Family 142364123X Mark 0 to-read 4.33 2016 Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy
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A Trout Fisherman's Soul 29790876
A brush with mortality inspired the now-grown Tony to write A Trout Fisherman's Soul, a light-hearted memoir that passionately describes how four generations of family trout fishermen built a rich tradition on the Flag River near Lake Superior. Tony lovingly describes a trip with his brother and their two sons, intermingled with flashbacks to times spent fishing with his father and grandfather. He feels an even deeper kinship with them when he realizes he has become the person passing on the family's passion for the sport. A true testament to tradition, A Trout Fisherman's Soul reveals that in the end it's not the catch that feeds the soul, but the love of family.]]>
188 Tony Dincau 1457544415 Mark 0 to-read 4.00 A Trout Fisherman's Soul
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The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills � and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit � he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

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384 Andy Weir 0804139024 Mark 0 The movie was OK, but it was too much on the rescue and not enough on the struggle.]]> 4.41 2011 The Martian
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average rating: 4.41
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I am glad I read the book before seeing the movie. In listening to the book, I felt the heaviness of the situation. I thought somehow it will work out, but I was not always sure. If Mark Watney had died on Mars, or while trying to be rescued, that would have been OK. Weir had woven a marvelous sculpture of man's struggle, which always ends in death.
The movie was OK, but it was too much on the rescue and not enough on the struggle.
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11/22/63 10644930
In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane � and insanely possible � mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.

In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...]]>
849 Stephen King 1451627289 Mark 4 I enjoyed how King crafted the effects of time rippling and parallel realities. That is good science fiction, without illogically contrived story crashers. Straight forward and believable. Well done.]]> 4.33 2011 11/22/63
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.33
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This book took me places that I didn't expect. I remember 11/22/63, like a remember 9/11/2012. While Jake was pushing 'time' limits, I was exploring my own. "What if" is a game that can take your mind to many places, many dark and loathsome, and some leading to a wall of question mark.
I enjoyed how King crafted the effects of time rippling and parallel realities. That is good science fiction, without illogically contrived story crashers. Straight forward and believable. Well done.
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<![CDATA[Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time]]> 19288230
If you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid � or compelling � explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago.

The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.

In this book you’ll journey to Scrum’s front lines where Jeff’s system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores.

Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, Scrum is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable � whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper.]]>
237 Jeff Sutherland 038534645X Mark 0 The second time, was to search for how I could use this in my management situation. The third time I was more critical. I saw that while the book contains some very good ideas and practices, many of the important dictates are just not possible in many managerial situations. I am using what fits my reality. There are parts of this book that could help organize any person with managerial responsibilities; from parents, to coaches, to corporate.]]> 4.12 2014 Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
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average rating: 4.12
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I went through this book 3 times. The first time I was amazed. How could we all be so stupid?
The second time, was to search for how I could use this in my management situation. The third time I was more critical. I saw that while the book contains some very good ideas and practices, many of the important dictates are just not possible in many managerial situations. I am using what fits my reality. There are parts of this book that could help organize any person with managerial responsibilities; from parents, to coaches, to corporate.
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Catch-22 168668
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.]]>
453 Joseph Heller 0684833395 Mark 0 3.99 1961 Catch-22
author: Joseph Heller
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average rating: 3.99
book published: 1961
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After 50 years this book is still so relevant to the craziness which still surrounds us. We know each of these characters, whether in a corporate office, a construction crew, or the PTA. As a psychologist I can say that if you meet someone who says they are perfectly normal, get away quick.
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<![CDATA[The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload]]> 18693669
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.

But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. InĚý The Organized Mind , Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.

With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives.Ěý This Is Your Brain on Music Ěýshowed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works.Ěý The Organized Mind Ěýshows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific perspective.]]>
528 Daniel J. Levitin 052595418X Mark 0 3.63 2014 The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
author: Daniel J. Levitin
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average rating: 3.63
book published: 2014
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This book was an easy listen, but had to digest. So many parts I would like to incorporate, but the lack to discipline and time make what should be laudable piece on mind ;) seem just out of reach. I will need to listen to this a few more times and see if I can be moved to better organization.
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Double Star 175324
Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake � failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line � for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!]]>
243 Robert A. Heinlein 0345330137 Mark 0 3.90 1956 Double Star
author: Robert A. Heinlein
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average rating: 3.90
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I have long been a Heinlein fan, but somehow this book never crossed by literary path. A talented Audible reader breathed life into a mildly fiction reality to personality. We are all a bit of Lorenzo, trying to shape ourselves into a more acceptable package. Heinlein pushes the change rather then pull it, which makes it easier to understand the trait in ourselves. In the end we are either who we were allowed to mold ourselves into, or what other's reality was pushed into us.
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<![CDATA[The Short Drop (Gibson Vaughn, #1)]]> 27239265
For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal—Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister to him. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance, the former head of Benjamin Lombard’s security asks for Gibson’s help in a covert investigation of the case, with new evidence in hand.

Haunted by tragic memories, he jumps at the chance to uncover what happened all those years ago. Using his military and technical prowess, he soon discovers multiple conspiracies surrounding the Lombard family—and he encounters powerful, ruthless political players who will do anything to silence him and his team. With new information surfacing that could threaten Lombard’s bid for the presidency, Gibson must stay one step ahead as he navigates a dangerous web to get to the truth.]]>
397 Matthew FitzSimmons 150395241X Mark 0 4.18 2015 The Short Drop (Gibson Vaughn, #1)
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average rating: 4.18
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Audible. The reader kept me listening when I might have shelved the book. It seemed slow and meandering in development, but FitzSimmons does keep all the parts meaningful. Not in my top 50, but it was a good listen on several long drives.
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<![CDATA[Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)]]> 9969571 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]>
480 Ernest Cline 030788743X Mark 0 4.21 2011 Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
author: Ernest Cline
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average rating: 4.21
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This book was a roller coaster of memories. Having lived through the Trash 80, the Commodore 64, hexadecimal programming on Intel Blue Boxes and listening and playing all the original rock and roll, I was in the middle of the characters. I thought Wade was a little too talented (or lucky), and the corporation bashing a little heavy. That being said, Cline needed to make a story to show off his extraordinary insight on a soon forgotten era that was the birth of the computer and computer games, and the whirlwind of ideas, fashions, morals and synthetic trips.
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<![CDATA[How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World]]> 20893477
In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes—from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth—How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life.
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In his trademark style, Johnson examines unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields: how the invention of air-conditioning enabled the largest migration of human beings in the history of the species—to cities such as Dubai or Phoenix, which would otherwise be virtually uninhabitable; how pendulum clocks helped trigger the industrial revolution; and how clean water made it possible to manufacture computer chips. Accompanied by a major six-part television series on PBS, How We Got to Now is the story of collaborative networks building the modern world, written in the provocative, informative, and engaging style that has earned Johnson fans around the globe.]]>
293 Steven Johnson 1594632960 Mark 0 4.09 2014 How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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average rating: 4.09
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Enjoyed the fact-filled history of how a few special things or events helped shape our 'now', and could still have place to mold divergent tomorrows. I looked at many common and accepted items and ideas with more reverence.
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Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.�

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]>
275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Mark 0 ]]> 4.10 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 1969
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Audible read. Better now than when I read it in high school. While it is completely unbelievable, most every reader can relate to phasing in and out of past events, might have been events and hoped for events. An interesting vehicle in the study of mental gymnastics.

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Gates of Fire 1305
Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

“A novel that is intricate and arresting and, once begun, almost impossible to put down.”—Daily News

“A timeless epic of man and war . . . Pressfield has created a new classic deserving a place beside the very best of the old.”—Stephen Coonts
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526 Steven Pressfield 055338368X Mark 0 4.40 1998 Gates of Fire
author: Steven Pressfield
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average rating: 4.40
book published: 1998
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A plausible history of an over-exageraited and exploited historical moment. Pressfield brings a humanness to this time period. The characters are believable and the events plausible. Unfortunately, I use the word 'crease' far too often, says my wife.
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Lock In (Lock In, #1) 21418013
A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.

But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.]]>
336 John Scalzi 0765375869 Mark 0 material as John Scalzi. Good fiction wrapped in a reliable reality box. He writes it so well that the not-believable seems reasonable without intentional explanation. Deserves its high rating.]]> 3.89 2014 Lock In (Lock In, #1)
author: John Scalzi
name: Mark
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2014
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Listened on Audible. Wil Wheaton did a commendable reading job, but it most be easier with colorful
material as John Scalzi. Good fiction wrapped in a reliable reality box. He writes it so well that the not-believable seems reasonable without intentional explanation. Deserves its high rating.
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<![CDATA[Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)]]> 9532
Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.

Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.

What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.

Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.

Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game.]]>
469 Orson Scott Card 0765342405 Mark 5 4.32 1999 Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
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average rating: 4.32
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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This was my second visit to the book, this time through Audible. Listening rather than reading repainted some parts in different colors. The team of readers, and the echos to the Ender's Game movie made this go through even more interesting. Card's study of children in plight is insightful and disturbing.
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<![CDATA[End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)]]> 25526965
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.

Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney—the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city.

In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King.]]>
432 Stephen King 1501129740 Mark 0 4.07 2016 End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
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Good way to end the trilogy, but did leave door open to further adventures. This book was definitely more Kingish with more hocus pocus. For me not believable, but what the heck, good entertainment and writing.
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<![CDATA[Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)]]> 22453035 Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far—a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes

“Wake up, genius.� So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years.

Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life—for good, for bad, forever.]]>
448 Stephen King 1501100130 Mark 0 3.99 2015 Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
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average rating: 3.99
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Not quite as good as book 1, but eventually helped fill out the main characters. Could have skipped it and gone to 3 with out much loss. I travel a lot so I listened on Audible. Good reader
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<![CDATA[Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)]]> 18775247
Months later, an ex-cop named Bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from "the perk," claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.

Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
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437 Stephen King 1476754454 Mark 0 4.01 2014 Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
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Good first book of series. Listened on Audible. Very good reader. Continued on next 2 of trilogy.
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The Last Lecture 2318271
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.]]>
206 Randy Pausch 1401323251 Mark 0 easy read and introspective. 4.25 2008 The Last Lecture
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<![CDATA[The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness]]> 78427
Build up your money muscles with America's favorite finance coach.

Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny little bank account into a bulked-up cash machine? Then get with the program, people. There's one sure way to whip your finances into shape, and that's with "The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition".

By now, you've heard all the nutty get-rich-quick schemes, the fiscal diet fads that leave you with a lot of kooky ideas but not a penny in your pocket. Hey, if you're tired of the lies and sick of the false promises, take a look at this--it's the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits. And it's based on results, not pie-in-the-sky fantasies.

With "The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition," you'll be able to:
Design a sure-fire plan for paying off all debt--meaning cars, houses, everything
Recognize the 10 most dangerous money myths (these will kill you)
Secure a big, fat nest egg for emergencies and retirement!]]>
229 Dave Ramsey 0785289089 Mark 0 4.20 1994 The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
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<![CDATA[Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times]]> 5449798
The man who revolutionized the world by giving it the plastic spoon, fork, knife and Styrofoam take-out food container will once again change how you live your life. I can say that because that’s what happened to me after reading Jon Huntsman’s Winners Never Cheat . In today’s world where it increasingly appears that we can’t trust our political or business leaders, this book is an unwavering reminder that traditional values never go out of style and are as essential today as they were forty years ago when Jon Huntsman launched a small chemical business that he grew into the world’s largest privately held chemical corporation. Jon Huntsman doesn’t like to be called a billionaire. He’s uncomfortable with that title. I’m convinced he also doesn’t like being one either because he’s committed to giving away his hard-earned fortune—not after he dies, but during his lifetime. I believe in this book’s message and its messenger. I have never in my life purchased any book by the case, except for this one. I give a copy to my friends who mistakenly believe that business can no longer be done with a look in the eye and a handshake. Many of the problems and much of the pain we’re currently experiencing on Wall Street and Washington could have been avoided if those we trusted with our money and our power lived what’s taught in these pages. If you’re looking for success, read this book. If you’re wondering if you can be successful while staying true to your core principles, read this book. If you’re wondering, like so many are, if capitalism has a bright future, read this book. I have and it’s changed my life. --Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck’s newest book, The Christmas Sweater , follows the challenges and growth of a boy who struggles with the choices he has made and the decisions he yet must make. Beck is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Book , and The Real America . He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Glenn Beck Program and will also be hosting his own television show on Fox News beginning in 2009.]]>
224 Jon M. Huntsman Sr. 0137009038 Mark 0 4.14 2008 Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times
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<![CDATA[Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto]]> 5641414 New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers: Liberty and Tyranny is Mark R. Levin's clarion call to conservative America, a new manifesto for the conservative movement for the 21st century.

In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. Conservative beliefs in individual freedoms do in the end stand for liberty for all Americans, while liberal dictates lead to the breakdown of civilized society -- in short, tyranny. Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes "conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are our founding principles." And in a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more -- and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.

As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, Levin's narrative will galvanize readers to begin a new era in conservative thinking and action. Liberty and Tyranny provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society.

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245 Mark R. Levin 1416562850 Mark 0 lost interest 4.17 2004 Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
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Broken Music: A Memoir 277412
And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know.

I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything that’s ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.]]>
337 Sting 0385338651 Mark 2 3.85 2003 Broken Music: A Memoir
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<![CDATA[Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)]]> 7967
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.

Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.]]>
382 Orson Scott Card 0812550757 Mark 5 4.10 1986 Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
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<![CDATA[Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)]]> 9534
But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heroes; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter.

Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world.]]>
451 Orson Scott Card 0812565959 Mark 3 3.96 2000 Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)
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<![CDATA[Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)]]> 31360
At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and pequeninos outside the universe and back instantaneously. She uses these powers to move them to distant habitable planets for colonization. She is losing her memory and concentration as the vast computer network connected to the ansible is being shut down. If she is to survive, she must find a way to transfer her aiĂşa (or soul) to a human body.]]>
370 Orson Scott Card 0765304740 Mark 4 3.77 1996 Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
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<![CDATA[Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)]]> 234724
Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.

Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.]]>
375 Orson Scott Card 0765340054 Mark 3 3.89 2002 Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
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<![CDATA[Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga, #5)]]> 3220405 After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game.

In Ender’s Game, the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to anĚýelite training school.ĚýAt Battle School,Ěýthey learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.

After the life-changing events of those years, these children—now teenagers—must leave the schoolĚýand readapt to life in the outside world.

Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years—where do they go now? What can they do?

Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he’s ever known to begin a relativistic—and revelatory—journey beyond the stars.Ěý

What happened during the years between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in Speaker for the Dead, this is the long-lost story of Ender.

For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. Ender in Exile is Orson Scott Card’s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot.

On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Ender’s old friend Bean�

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369 Orson Scott Card 0765304961 Mark 4 3.90 2008 Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga, #5)
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<![CDATA[Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)]]> 2415156 11 Orson Scott Card 0792733592 Mark 5 3.77 1985 Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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average rating: 3.77
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<![CDATA[Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus]]> 40293 402 Orson Scott Card 0812508645 Mark 4 3.97 1996 Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
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book published: 1996
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<![CDATA[Heartfire (Tales of Alvin Maker, #5)]]> 7962 336 Orson Scott Card 1841490326 Mark 5 3.72 1998 Heartfire (Tales of Alvin Maker, #5)
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average rating: 3.72
book published: 1998
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<![CDATA[Alvin Journeyman (Tales of Alvin Maker, #4)]]> 40271 381 Orson Scott Card 0312850530 Mark 5 3.75 1995 Alvin Journeyman (Tales of Alvin Maker, #4)
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average rating: 3.75
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Lost Boys 40303 For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster.

Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself — and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.

But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil ... and it's coming for Stevie next.

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448 Orson Scott Card 0517125773 Mark 2 3.60 1992 Lost Boys
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<![CDATA[Rebekah (Women of Genesis, #2)]]> 7966 Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning, headstrong beauty. She was chosen by God for a special destiny.

Rebekah leaves her father's house to marry Isaac, the studious young son of the Patriarch Abraham, only to find herself caught up in a series of painful rivalries, first between her husband and his brother Ishmael, and later between her sons Jacob and Esau. Her struggles to find her place in the family of Abraham are a true test of her faith, but through it all she finds her own relationship with God and does her best to serve His cause in the lives of those she loves.

In Rebekah, Orson Scott Card has created an astonishing personality, complex and intriguing, and her story will engage your heart as it captures your imagination.
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416 Orson Scott Card 076534128X Mark 4 3.84 2001 Rebekah (Women of Genesis, #2)
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<![CDATA[Rachel & Leah (Women of Genesis, #3)]]> 7959 368 Orson Scott Card 0765341298 Mark 5 3.85 2004 Rachel & Leah (Women of Genesis, #3)
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Blood Lure (Anna Pigeon, #9) 86446
Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...]]>
333 Nevada Barr 0425183750 Mark 5 3.88 2001 Blood Lure (Anna Pigeon, #9)
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average rating: 3.88
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Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8) 76703 352 Nevada Barr 0425178951 Mark 3 3.92 2000 Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8)
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<![CDATA[High Country (Anna Pigeon, #12)]]> 86442 301 Nevada Barr 0425199568 Mark 2 3.90 2004 High Country (Anna Pigeon, #12)
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I was a little dissappointed by this book. Having been to Yosemite many times, I felt maybe she hurried the research for this book. Her facts could have easily come from a short visit, brouchers and blogs. Her story lines are predictable so I want to be carried by the scenery.
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<![CDATA[Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10]]> 711901

This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left-blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe, who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers.


A six-foot-five-inch Texan, Leading Petty Officer Luttrell takes us, blow-by-blow, through the brutal training of America's warrior elite and the relentless rites of passage required by the Navy SEALs. He transports us to a monstrous battle fought in the desolate peaks of Afghanistan, where the beleaguered American team plummeted headlong a thousand feet down a mountain as they fought back through flying shale and rocks. In this rich , moving chronicle of courage, honor, and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers one of the most powerful narratives ever written about modern warfare-and a tribute to his teammates, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.]]>
390 Marcus Luttrell 0316067598 Mark 5 4.32 2006 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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Flashback (Anna Pigeon, #11) 76705 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.

Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time.

When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous.]]>
383 Nevada Barr 0425194493 Mark 5 3.88 2003 Flashback (Anna Pigeon, #11)
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Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, #4) 86441 298 Nevada Barr 0380725827 Mark 5 3.98 1996 Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, #4)
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Living in California's fire country, this book was particularly interesing. Nevada Barr's research for this book was right on.
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<![CDATA[Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14)]]> 2039223 370 Nevada Barr 0399154582 Mark 4 3.83 2008 Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14)
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)]]> 76706 218 Nevada Barr 0380721643 Mark 4 3.83 1993 Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
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rating: 4
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Typical Anna Pidgeon. I love the National Parks and her descriptions make me want to keep on returning.
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Magic Street 7964
In a prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, infant Mack Street is found abandoned in an overgrown park and taken in by a blunt-speaking single woman. Growing up, Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers. Yet he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he discovers, beyond a mysterious narrow house no one else can see, an entryway into a magical world. Passing through, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where his actions seem to have disturbing effects in the “real world.� Whether he likes it or not, Mack has become a player in an epic drama. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists.

Praise for Magic Street

“A great read . . . Card’s take on his characters [is] as sure as ever, his narrative rock solid, his dialogue crackling and authentic.� � Los Angeles Times Book Review

“[Card] is a master at creating a sense of urgency that keeps you turning pages.â€� â€� The Charlotte ObserverĚý

“Mind-bending . . . Card’s clever tale comes with sharp writing and crisp dialogue.â€� â€� The Tampa TribuneĚý

“Compelling . . . By the time the ultimate conflict comes into focus, the novel is propelling the reader forward like a bullet.â€� â€� Deseret Morning NewsĚý

“A suspenseful fantasy thriller that, during the race to the last page, has one mulling over myth, morals, salvation, and will.� � Booklist]]>
416 Orson Scott Card 0345416902 Mark 3 3.25 2005 Magic Street
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Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3) 86445 320 Nevada Barr 0425197255 Mark 5 3.87 1995 Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3)
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<![CDATA[A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)]]> 86492 310 Nevada Barr 042519471X Mark 4 3.88 1994 A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon, #7)]]> 86444 When Anna Pigeon left New York City after her husband was killed, she hoped it would be forever. But now her sister Molly is clinging to life in an uptown hospital ICU, so Anna has reluctantly returned. Rooming with a friend and fellow park ranger in close quarters on Liberty Island—the small strip of land that is home to Lady Liberty—Anna spends her free time exploring the grand monument and the crumbling, overgrown, and eerie ruins in the unrestored sections of nearby Ellis Island. But the peace she seeks here is shattered when she finds herself among a crowd gathered at the Lady's base, staring at the broken body of a teenager who fell—or was pushed—to her death.
The reason behind the youthful girl's fatal plunge is not the only mystery alive on these historic sites—nor will hers be the only death. Hidden in a dangerous labyrinth of stone, glass, and steel are secrets Anna Pigeon is now compelled to uncover...and an insidious threat to herself and to others that could wreak havoc on a nation's proudest day. There is peril beneath the watchful eyes of the Lady...]]>
369 Nevada Barr 0380728273 Mark 4 3.79 1999 Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon, #7)
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<![CDATA[Homecoming: Earth (Omnibus) (Homecoming Saga, #4-5)]]> 393798
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Nafai did not possess his borther Elemak's natural gift for leadership, but he also lacked his brother's capacity for envy and suspicion. While Elemak resisted the Ovesoul, Nafai was its willing tool--one reason he was put in charge of the expedition. For that, Elemak would never forgive him. Yet his hatred of Nafai went far deeper--a poison that ate away at the colony. And then it spread among those with whom humans now shared the Earth--two sapient races that had evolved from ordinary bats and rats. The colonists called them angels and diggers.

^^^^^^^^^^^^

The angel pTo feared the Old Ones, but even more, he feared they would ally themselves with the hated devils, who lived underground and preyed upon the angels' young. And so he dared approach the strangers who'd come out of the sky, though they had no wings--and nearly paid for such boldness with his life. An inauspicious beginning to a friendship that would endure for centuries.

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The digger Fusum was blood king of his people, and he despised the way they groveled before the newcomers. The root Mother said they were gods; Fusum knew better. They were strong, but mortal. He saw one die! So he would wait, forge alliances, and when the time was right, he would lead an army to destroy them.]]>
614 Orson Scott Card 1568651406 Mark 3 3.66 1995 Homecoming: Earth (Omnibus) (Homecoming Saga, #4-5)
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The Puppet Masters 7171856
Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Then four more follow up agents also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. What the humans know, they know. What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. And most of Iowa is already under their control.

Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand.]]>
416 Robert A. Heinlein 143913376X Mark 4 3.89 1951 The Puppet Masters
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rating: 4
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Charly 411449 128 Jack Weyland 0875791212 Mark 4 3.97 1980 Charly
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A reminder that we all must look beyond ourselves.
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Sphere 455373 371 Michael Crichton Mark 5 3.83 1987 Sphere
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Lucifer's Hammer 218467 THE LUCKY ONES WENT FIRST�

The gigantic comet has slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization

But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival—a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known�.]]>
629 Larry Niven 0449208133 Mark 4 3.99 1977 Lucifer's Hammer
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average rating: 3.99
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The Martian Chronicles 76778
The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.

But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them � and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.

Contents:
Rocket Summer
Ylla
The Summer Night
The Earth Men
The Taxpayer
The Third Expedition
-And the Moon Be Still As Bright
The Settlers
The Green Morning
The Locusts
Night Meeting
The Shore
Interim
The Musicians
Way in the Middle of the Air
The Naming of Names
Usher II
The Old Ones
The Martian
The Luggage Store
The Off Season
The Watchers
The Silent Towns
The Long Years
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Million Year Picnic]]>
182 Ray Bradbury 0553278223 Mark 4 4.16 1950 The Martian Chronicles
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<![CDATA[The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)]]> 7670
Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona.

Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.
--back cover]]>
327 Michael Crichton 0060541814 Mark 4 3.92 1969 The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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Dune (Dune, #1) 234225 Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.]]>
604 Frank Herbert 0340839937 Mark 2 4.21 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
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rating: 2
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Waldo and Magic, Inc 121586
But Waldo had little reason to want to help the rest of humanity � until he learned that the solution to their problems also held the key to his own...

Magic, Inc.
Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. was systematically squeezing out the small independent magicians. Then one businessman stood firm. With the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he went straight to the demons of Hell to resolve the problem � once and for all!]]>
304 Robert A. Heinlein 0450397300 Mark 5 3.88 1940 Waldo and Magic, Inc
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Farmer in the Sky 50851 George Lerner was shipping out for Ganymede to join the fledgling colony, and Bill wanted to go along. But his father would not hear of it -- far too dangerous a mission!
Bill finally talked his way aboard the colony ship Mayflower -- and discovered his father was right!]]>
224 Robert A. Heinlein 0345324382 Mark 5 3.78 1950 Farmer in the Sky
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Methuselah's Children 175319 Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All.

No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them: nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality...]]>
276 Robert A. Heinlein 0671655973 Mark 3 4.00 1958 Methuselah's Children
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rating: 3
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The Green Hills of Earth 50831 288 Robert A. Heinlein 0671578537 Mark 5 3.87 1951 The Green Hills of Earth
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Job: A Comedy of Justice 355
After that firewalking gig in Polynesia, the whole world was suddenly changed around him. Instead of fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer, he was now supposed to be Alec Graham, an underworld figure in the middle of an affair with his stewardess Margrethe—who was the only good thing in the whole mess.

Then there was an impossible iceberg that wrecked the ship in the tropics. Rescued by a Royal ĚýMexican plane, they were hit by a double earthquake. From then on, as changed world followed changed world, things went from bad to worse.

To Alex, all the signs increasingly pointed to Armageddon and the Day of Judgement. And Margrethe was a determined heathen. Somehow he had to bring her to a state of grace, for Heaven would be no paradise without her. But time was growing short.Ěý

Somewhere, there had to be a solution to it all. And, of course, there was. But it was truly a Hell of a solution.]]>
440 Robert A. Heinlein 0345316509 Mark 5 3.79 1984 Job: A Comedy of Justice
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Time Enough for Love 353 589 Robert A. Heinlein Mark 3 3.96 1973 Time Enough for Love
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rating: 3
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Stranger in a Strange Land 350 NAME: Valentine Michael Smith
ANCESTRY: Human
ORIGIN: Mars

Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.]]>
525 Robert A. Heinlein Mark 4 3.93 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land
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<![CDATA[Spiritual Roots of Human Relations]]> 44666 Spiritual Roots of Human Relations addresses the roots of relationship problems and suggests spiritual solutions such as vision, commitment, understanding and example, communication, and self-discipline.]]> 336 Stephen R. Covey 0875797059 Mark 5 4.17 1970 Spiritual Roots of Human Relations
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average rating: 4.17
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My first Covey book and I think the corner stone of his career.
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Principle-Centered Leadership 44644 336 Stephen R. Covey 0671792806 Mark 5 4.12 Principle-Centered Leadership
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<![CDATA[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Creating a Nurturing Family in a Turbulent World]]> 783128 390 Stephen R. Covey 0307440850 Mark 4 4.12 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Creating a Nurturing Family in a Turbulent World
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<![CDATA[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide]]> 783127 Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. In addition, this book is stuffed with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens will engage teenagers unlike any other book.

An indispensable book for teens, as well as parents, grandparents, and any adult who influences young people, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is destined to become the last word on surviving and thriving as a teen and beyond.

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268 Sean Covey 0684856093 Mark 3 4.04 1997 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
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<![CDATA[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change]]> 36072 372 Stephen R. Covey 0743269519 Mark 5 4.16 1989 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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average rating: 4.16
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<![CDATA[The Incredible Sex and Popcorn Diet: Making Love Last Forever (Faith, Hope, and Love, 1)]]> 451432 230 Robert L. Litchfield Jr. 0970242719 Mark 4 4.00 2002 The Incredible Sex and Popcorn Diet: Making Love Last Forever (Faith, Hope, and Love, 1)
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average rating: 4.00
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a fun read. Life is only as complicated as we make it.
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<![CDATA[To Be a Graceful Giant : A Living Expression of Grace]]> 3108297 300 Robert L. Litchfield Jr. 0970242700 Mark 5 3.67 2000 To Be a Graceful Giant : A Living Expression of Grace
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I know Bob and he walks the walk and talks the talk. Simple guidelines for a simpler, more fulfilled life.
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The Art of Happiness 38210 322 Dalai Lama XIV 1573221112 Mark 5 inspirational 4.17 1998 The Art of Happiness
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inspirational
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<![CDATA[Crystal Line (Crystal Singer, #3)]]> 61970 LOCUS
When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.]]>
294 Anne McCaffrey 0517128128 Mark 4 4.01 1994 Crystal Line (Crystal Singer, #3)
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average rating: 4.01
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<![CDATA[The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Pern Publication Order, #8.5)]]> 61950 paperback, vg++ 449 Anne McCaffrey 0552144363 Mark 4 3.92 1985 The Girl Who Heard Dragons (Pern Publication Order, #8.5)
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1985
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<![CDATA[The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)]]> 203288
Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals.

Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructible, Helva XH-834 anticipated a sublime immortality.

Then one day she fell in love!]]>
256 Anne McCaffrey 0345334310 Mark 3 4.03 1969 The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)
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<![CDATA[Killashandra (Crystal Singer, #2)]]> 238961 The second in a mesmeric trilogy that runs the gamut of human experience and emotion from Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams.

'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES

'Storytelling at its best' -- Reader review
'It's Anne Mccaffrey - always 5 star!' -- Reader review
'Classic Sci Fi that just hasn't aged' -- Reader review
'A real page-turner' -- Reader review
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She was one of the Crystal Singers, the élite, mysterious ones, who cut the crystals from the planet Ballybran - precious glittering crystals without which the universe could not function.

Sent to the planet of Optheria to repair the famous crystal organ, she was - at first - accorded all the honour and pomp due to her rank. Then her life became threatened and she found herself isolated at the very heart of the planet, knowing that she alone had the power to confront and destroy the evil that had permeated the world of Optheria.

Would she be able to find the strength she needed?]]>
384 Anne McCaffrey 0345316002 Mark 4 4.04 1985 Killashandra (Crystal Singer, #2)
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<![CDATA[Crystal Singer (Crystal Singer, #1)]]> 653711 311 Anne McCaffrey 0345327861 Mark 4 4.10 1982 Crystal Singer (Crystal Singer, #1)
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 16690 288 Robert A. Heinlein 0340837942 Mark 5 4.16 1966 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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imaginative and resourcefull, yet futile
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Eye for Eye 724283 3 Orson Scott Card 1933299517 Mark 0 to-read 3.42 Eye for Eye
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<![CDATA[Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life]]> 97113 Possum funeral / David Dollahite --
Tim / Kristen D. Randle --
Father, forgive us / Randall L. Hall --
Birthday gift / Carroll Morris --
The color-blind bull / Jean Liebenthal --
Me and the Big Apple / Jaroldeen Edwards --
Mallwalkers / Jerry M. Young --
More than marks on the paper / Kathleen Dalton-Woodberry --
Flower girl / Herbert Harker --
Hanauma Bay / Margaret Blair Young --
That my soul might see / Richard H. Cracroft --
Your own people / Jack Weyland --
Still dancing / Susan Dean Strange --
Dad and the Studebaker / Richard M. Siddoway --
Sandwich filling / Sharon Downing Jarvis --
Now let's dance / Zina Peterson --
The door on Wickham Street / Robert England Lee --
Worthy to be one of us / Orson / Orson Scott Card --
Afterward: Family stories and family relationships / David Dollahite --
About the authors]]>
307 Orson Scott Card 0884949486 Mark 4 3.64 1994 Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life
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Ultimate Iron Man, Vol. 1 44579 Hugo award, two-time Nebula award and World Fantasy Award winner Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) comes to the Ultimate Universe. He's joined by industry legend Andy Kubert (Marvel 1602, Wolverine: Origin) to show the shocking beginning of Ultimate Iron Man! If you thought The Ultimates told you everything you needed to know about Ultimate Iron Man, think again!

Collecting: Ultimate Iron Man 1-5]]>
136 Orson Scott Card 078512151X Mark 0 to-read 3.44 2006 Ultimate Iron Man, Vol. 1
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<![CDATA[First Meetings in Ender's Universe (Ender's Saga, #0.5)]]> 7957 Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game--winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories.

"The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin....

In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student.

"The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive--until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide.

Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.
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212 Orson Scott Card 0765347989 Mark 0 to-read 3.84 1999 First Meetings in Ender's Universe (Ender's Saga, #0.5)
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Empire (Empire, #1) 7955
The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own.

When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on?

Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of a new American Civil War.]]>
352 Orson Scott Card 0765316110 Mark 4 3.44 2006 Empire (Empire, #1)
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Dragons of Light 2313450
The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin Ill. Alicia Austin

The George Business by Roger Zelazny Ill. Geofrey Darrow

One Winter in Eden by Michael Bishop Ill. Val & John Lakey

A Drama of Dragons by Craig Show Gardner Ill. Gini Shurtleff

Silken Dragon by Steven Edward McDonald Ill. Ron Miller

Dragon Lore by Steve Rasnic Tem Ill. Victoria Poyser

Eagle Worm By Jessica Amanda Salmonson Ill. Glen Edwards

The Dragon of Dunloon by Arthur Dembling Ill. Dileen Marsh

If I die Before I Wake by Greg Bear Ill. Greg Bear

As Above, so Below by John M. Ford Ill. Judy King Rieniets

Cock Fight by Jane Yolen Ill. T. Windling

From Bach to Broccoli By Richard Kearns Ill. Geofrey Darrow

Dragon Touched by Dave Smeds Ill. Michael Hague]]>
317 Orson Scott Card 1557850372 Mark 4 3.58 1980 Dragons of Light
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Ultimate Iron Man, Vol. 2 2095632
Collecting: Ultimate Iron Man II 1-5]]>
120 Orson Scott Card 078511856X Mark 0 to-read 3.13 2008 Ultimate Iron Man, Vol. 2
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<![CDATA[Stonefather (Mither Mages, #0.5)]]> 3030779 150 Orson Scott Card 1596061944 Mark 0 to-read 3.86 2008 Stonefather (Mither Mages, #0.5)
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<![CDATA[Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show: An Anthology]]> 2316941
There is fiction from David Farber, Tim Pratt, and David Lubar among others, also four new Ender's Game universe stories by Card himself. This collection is sure to appeal to Card's fans, and be a great ambassador to them for these other talented writers.]]>
432 Edmund R. Schubert 0765320002 Mark 3 3.96 2008 Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show: An Anthology
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Space Boy 92962 95 Orson Scott Card 1596061111 Mark 0 to-read 3.12 2007 Space Boy
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<![CDATA[Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories]]> 97096 exercises.--Closing the timelid.--I put my blue genes on.--Eumenides
in the fourth floor lavatory.--Mortal gods.--Quietus.--The monkeys
thought 'twas all in fun.--The porcelain salamander.--Unaccompanied
sonata.--Afterword: On origins.]]>
209 Orson Scott Card 0803791755 Mark 4 4.06 1980 Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories
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Future On Ice 40270 A widely varied, immensely enjoyable, and historically important anthology, Future on Ice is a showcase for the hottest stories by the coolest SF writers of the 1980s. Complete with a preface, introduction, and story notes by Card himself, here are early stories from eighteen incredibly talented authors who have since shattered the face of science fiction.
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432 Orson Scott Card 0312872968 Mark 3 3.61 1998 Future On Ice
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<![CDATA[Monkey Sonatas (Maps in a Mirror, #3)]]> 40310 309 Orson Scott Card 0812523679 Mark 3 3.78 1990 Monkey Sonatas (Maps in a Mirror, #3)
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